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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9718363" data-attributes="member: 19675">There were definitely sci-fi stories that addressed that issue somewhat.  The first one to mind was an old short story whose name I unfortunately can’t recall.  The astronaut is issued a parrot as a companion on his exploratory mission because almost anything they could eat, a human could, and with their eyesight and flight, would probably be excellent foragers.  (And alarms.)The second was the movie Robinson Crusoe of Mars, in which the hero is given a monkey for similar reasons.Of course, with only one pet- and one astronaut- this scheme doesn’t have much wiggle room before resulting in debilitating illness or death.  (Which almost happened in the movie.)Of course, it’s also better than nothing.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷🏾‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fe-2642.png" title="Man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone    :man_shrugging_tone4:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone4:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>